Consider This

Suppose you found a $100 bill on the sidewalk. It has dirt all over it. It had little rips and lots and lots of wrinkles. It was not that pretty to look at, though you thought you might be able to take it home with you, wash it off and press it in a book. In short, right now, it doesn’t look like a hundred bucks. But here’s the question: Would it spend? There are times in our lives when we do things that (metaphorically) get us dirty, wrinkled, ripped, and not morally pretty. But we are still valuable as a person. 

What do you think of this metaphor?